Arizona Sen. John McCain, 76, turned heads this week when The Hill reported he was hopeful that a proposal to eliminate the $1 dollar paper bill from circulation would help increase tips for the nation’s strippers. “Then I hope that they could obtain larger denominations,” he told the paper, in response to a question on the topic. Later, in a shout to the reporter, down the hall, he added, “Fives, tens, one hundreds!”

But it was hardly the first time McCain had expressed concern over the wellbeing of exotic dancers. McCain’s turns with strippers and youthful hijinks from his time in the Navy actually played a role in his 2008 presidential campaign — at least for a week during a introduction tour of Florida. “I enjoyed every single moment of my life here, from learning to fly to blowing my pay at Trader Jon’s,” he said in Pensacola, shortly after winning the Republican nomination. Trader Jon’s, during his time in the Navy, had been a bar often filled with dancing girls, some of whom he dated.

The 1996 book The Nightingale’s Song describes the scene: “He dated everyone from schoolteachers to the strippers at Trader John’s [sic], the fabled airdale raunch bar, often returning to base just in time to change clothes and drag himself out to the flightline,” Robert Timberg wrote.

In his own book, Faith Of My Fathers, McCain said the bar scene was the watering hole of “almost every unmarried aviator in Pensacola,” featuring at the back “local girls, trained as exotic dancers” who “entertained rowdy crowds of aviators.” One of them was the “Flame of Florida,” whose stage name was Marie. “She was a remarkably attractive girl with a great sense of humor,” McCain wrote, saying their dates were on Sunday nights when the bar was closed.

McCain recounted one night out with friends, when the Flame reached into her purse, popped open a switchblade and began to clean her fingernails, shocking some of those around her. Afterwards, McCain wrote, he took the “worldly, lovely Flame of Florida to dinner.”

In the two books, McCain also described toga parties, a fling with a Brazilian model, and throwing the “most raucous and longest beach parties of any squadron in the Navy.” These stories have always been a part of the McCain “Maverick” narrative— carousing Naval aviator who cleaned himself up in the service of his country—and they have served the Senator well in his career. So it is no surprise that he would like to pay the profession back.

Yep, Mac needs to retire. His war mongering is bad enough, but the w-ore mongering will kill what little support he has from women. Well, you know, unless they're among the recipients of his "generosity."

Doesn't matter if you're a dem or rep, men are men. You're always going to have men fascinated with the opposite sex. If they want to waste (in my view) their money at strip clubs,. that's their business. Also, if there are women that want to earn a living that way, then that's their business and how much they make is too. Let them make all the tips they can.

I have no problem with harmless sex between two consenting adults. That is Not my business.

That said, it does show a certain aspect of ones judgment and if you want to be a politician, then voters ought to reflect on that come election day.

Maybe the late Sunday partying and showing up on Monday just in time for the flight line had something to do with the fact that he crashed 5 planes. If his dad hadn't been an admiral, he probably would have been a swabby on the deck after the 2nd or 3rd one.

What is this wicked world coming to? A senator that ran for President is talking about his liasons with strippers. A congressman showed off his man thing and neither one of them have been publicly horse whipped. Yet. These are both signs of the End of Days as foretold in the Bible. Hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, droughts and floods ravage our nation because of the wickedness and lack of moral values. Women are marrying women, men are marrying men (with ZERO chance of conceiving a child) and yet the Light remains invisible to most of the heathens in our Great Country. I weep for what we have become

I always thought that, that old man was a pervert. On a serious note this is just another incident to prove that John McCain is completely out of touch with the average American. How about the customer what if they can only afford a dollar tip. Once again McCain is forgetting about the average person

I personally have no problem with strippers or stripping itself. If women want to parade their bodies around for money and patrons want to spend money to see these women parade their bodies around, that's their choice. And I really don't have any problem with a legalized and well-regulated prostitution industry either (well-regulated being the key word here).

F-4
"Phantom" McCain gets on the tops of the aircraft carrier «Enterprise» in the Tonkin
Gulf, was shot down our missile
defensein the sky over Vietnam.5 years Vietnamese held him captive in a
cesspool, sometimes beat on the head...

was as a
part of the missile calculation (ЗРК С-75 ) that knocked in
the skies over Vietnam,
American plane which was piloted by future candidate for president of the USA
John McCain, and even took away as a trophy its private papers.

@destor23, they are women that have fallen from grace. They show their private parts with the express purpose of leading men astray. They tempt men with their charms and break up countless good Christian marriages. The flesh is weak and they prey on that.

@xoferbean , I am not Jesus Our Lord and Savior and I'm not stupid. I am a righteous warrior for The Lord. I am not tempted by wicked women or the sins of the flesh. I cannot be lead into temptation. Wiggling naked women arouse only my pity and scorn. I love freedom but that doesn't mean that we are free to sin. We are free to sing the praises of our Lord and work for the good of our fellow man. Those who defy the Holy Scripture should be publicly beaten and stoned.

@WithGodAsMyWitness Jesus you're stupid. The express purpose of leading men astray? Really? That's why they do it? It's not a job? It's not for money? They're just demons yeah? What is the world coming to indeed? Can't believe people like you still exist. If you don't like the country and you don't like freedom then go live in Saudi Arabia.